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"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible." Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

Exceptional Powers

There is a direct link between Ingo’s work as an artist and his research in remote viewing, parapsychology, consciousness exploration and bioenergetics, clearly described by Martin Ebon in the quarterly journal Spiritual Frontiers: “It was when Ingo started to make drawings of his psychic visions that he discovered a very basic kind of ESP system that lies within us in undeveloped form. It is this system and the process of using it that became the foundation of Ingo’s lifelong research.”

This lifelong research as a “guinea pig” or what he called, an experimental subject in a parapsychology lab, saw him involved in a number of research projects. His driving goal in all of this was to show that these abilities can be validated through established and peer reviewed scientific methods.

The repository of much of that research is the University of West Georgia, Ingram Library, Special Collections, which specializes in Parapsychology and Humanistic Psychology. Notable among the existing Collections are the papers and records of Dr. William Roll, project director of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University and Ingo’s dear friend.

Of primary significance is the preservation there of Ingo's SRI research files, a treasure trove of information on the history and development of remote viewing. One set of SRI files contains records on all the first RV test subjects, including Tom McNear and Ingo himself, with transcripts, sessions and memos about the sessions, and the emerging understanding of the process of locating and developing the ESP core. Another set of files holds the many documents and memos Ingo created while at SRI, including requests, memos to file and general correspondence.

As part of Ingo’s personal research, he conducted remote viewing sessions targeting the planet Jupiter and its surrounding moons, Mars and Mercury. The findings in his well-known Jupiter probe were later confirmed by Voyager’s own tour of the planet in 1979. Edgar Mitchell, who made his historic moon voyage in 1971, said in the National Enquirer, “It took Mariner 10 months to get to Mercury – but Mr. Swann was able to project his consciousness there in an instant. Mr. Swann’s findings – weeks before we received the Mariner 10 data – were incredibly accurate.” The files, containing all of the remote viewing sessions, slide presentations and speeches he created to document the results, along with a binder containing the data supporting his findings are part of the Ingram Library’s Special Collections.

The research at SRI was aided by hundreds of scientific and other documents that provided significant insights and information. Ingo did not want those contributions to be forgotten. He kept reference files of journals, papers and articles from the 19th- and 20th- century, covering any information that pertained to the phenomena being researched. The files represent an invaluable history.

Welcome

BioMind Superpowers

Welcome to this database regarding the superpowers of the human biomind.

Certain aspects of the superpower faculties work spontaneously at times, resulting in many historical and modern anecdotes of such experiencing. It is the long historical record of such experiencing which attests to the factual existence of the indwelling superpower faculties.

There is an important distinction, though, between (1) the spontaneous occurrences, and (2) conscious, cognitive interacting with the superpower faculties. But the historical record of our species shows that various societies tolerant of the superpowers did permit development of various kinds of conscious interacting with them.

While working on government funded projects, beginning in 1973, it became necessary to distinguish new thresholds of understanding. It also became necessary to depart from those concepts of parapsychology and psychical research which had become too generally standardized and a matter of convention rather than of innovative insight.

It was found that many concepts meaningful to the superpowers were being ignored, others were not understood to be relevant, and gaping holes were discovered regarding important information which needed to be filled in. New and innovating understanding was necessary.

What came to be known as remote viewing was the central pillar of the research. But this pillar also served as a developmental core regarding information about all of the other superpowers. The active research lasted for about fifteen years -- after which a new "map" of the superpowers could be drawn.

This map is still tentative, however, because much needs to be added to it, and which many will doubtlessly do as the decades pass on into the future.

As the noble Aldous Huxley might have put it, here, then, is the beginnings of a Brave New World in this database.

In constructing this database, I have elected not to organize it as a whole nor to determine which topics are more important than others. Very many issues need to be considered, and each of which have their firm place within the larger picture of the superpowers.

And since people are different one from the other and have their own intellectual and experiential viewpoints, I've decided to construct this database as an extensive series of topics and essays for those who want to consider them piecemeal and perhaps find some nuance of understanding.

Real understanding is not possible unless information can be integrated. Each essay in this database deals piecemeal with a different topic or subject. But eventually those who read them with interest may begin to see how the many piecemeal topics integrate both in terms of comprehension and of experiencing.

Thanks for accessing this database -- and blessings on you.

Cordially,

Ingo Swann

Ingo's archive: Superpowers of the Human Biomind website

This database contains novel concepts and factors which have so far been discovered to be meaningful for a broader understanding of the superpowers.

The superpowers of the human biomind are essentially defined as those inherent faculties of our species which transcend time, matter, energy and space in terms of awareness, consciousness and phenomena which are more subtle and illusive. The transcending can be subconscious, subliminal, or conscious -- or, perhaps, superconscious.